A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers’ house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. And then a secret is revealed and suddenly, she realizes how fragile her idyll is. Winner of the Davy Byrnes Memorial Prize, Foster i...(展开全部)

An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not k...(展开全部)

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers’ house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. And then a secret is revealed and suddenly, she realizes how fragile her idyll is. Winner of the Davy Byrnes Memorial Prize, Foster i...(展开全部)

It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in there care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household - where everything is so well tended to - and ...(展开全部)

An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not k...(展开全部)

In intimate and eloquent interviews, including the last he gave before his suicide, the writer hailed by A.O. Scott of The New York Times as “the best mind of his generation” considers the state of modern America, entertainment and discipline, adulthood, literature, and his own inimitable writing style. The volume includes among others interviews with Laura Miller, Dave Eggers,...(展开全部)

沒有大眾心理學的雜耍技倆，也沒有令人沮喪的學習障礙，廣告大師傑克．福斯特（Jack Foster）的創意奇想法是一套清晰完整、平易近人的方法學。的確，創意無色無味，但卻有跡可尋。福斯特堅信，每一個人都有激發創意的潛能。透過他建構的創意理論，你可以完全自我放鬆，讓內在的創造力在瞬間爆發出來。不僅創意人必讀，更是企畫行銷人不容錯過的案頭自修書。

沒有大眾心理學的雜耍技倆，也沒有令人沮喪的學習障礙，廣告大師傑克．福斯特（Jack Foster）的創意奇想法是一套清晰完整、平易近人的方法學。的確，創意無色無味，但卻有跡可尋。福斯特堅信，每一個人都有激發創意的潛能。透過他建構的創意理論，你可以完全自我放鬆，讓內在的創造力在瞬間爆發出來。不僅創意人必讀，更是企畫行銷人不容錯過的案頭自修書。

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Other Wes Moore, and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering the concept of “luxury beliefs”—ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class w...(展开全部)

Suicide Century investigates suicide as a prominent theme in twentieth-century and contemporary literature. Andrew Bennett argues that with the waning of religious and legal prohibitions on suicide in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the increasing influence of medical and sociological accounts of its causes and significance in the twentieth century, literature respo...(展开全部)